According to About.com’s retail industry guide person Barbera Farfan, Best Buy and Target are expected to lose $759 billion in gay dollars due to the Human Rights Campaign’s boycott of the store chains. We had absolutely no idea queens dropped that much coin on Best Buy and Target. Damn. Oh wait. She qualifies it all [...]
RENWL wrote about Brad Manning’s arrest back in early July (Army Whistleblower Brad Manning And The Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Transgender Question). The post by far has been the most widely-read item on RENWL to date. At that time there were only three LGBT news related blogs in the gayosphere who had the balls to [...]
Today Fox News ran a story on The Greater Phoenix Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce facing off with local gay groups about boycotts on Arizona. Check this out: According to Fox News, the gay business group sent out a big email blast to all gay rights groups in Arizona asking in particular orgs like [...]
This just in from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC): Press Release: The California Fair Political Practices Committee (FPPC) has proposed a fine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) for failing to report all of its late non-monetary contributions in its efforts to pass Proposition 8 in California in 2008. While the [...]
Note: We ran this post earlier this year when these events happened. We decided to run it again because the midterm election is right around the corner. And we most definitely aim to remind anyone and everyone as to who kept the anti-Democrat and anti-Obama flames stoked 24/7 in the LGBT community for the past [...]
Gee, they hate it in Maryland—oh honey let’s test it out in Cali! On Monday Senator Mark Leno unveiled a new legislative bill SB96, which amends California’s family code to underscore the separation of church and state. Also dubbed the Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act, the bill declares that no clergy person is required to [...]
According to the blog Rod 2.0, Beta, 2009 was a banner year for LGBT laws. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) recently released its annual national report which breaks down LGBT legislative advances state by state. While the report acknowledges that there were some disappointments in 2009, it goes on however to reveal that 50 LGBT [...]
